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Artists in northwestern Canadian territory earn more than peers in rest of the country, survey says
A new survey has found that Yukon artists make more money than artists elsewhere in the country, but significantly less
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Exhibition to showcase Inuit art from Atlantic Canada
A new exhibition featuring the work of 25 known and emerging Inuit artists from Altlantic Canada is coming to Montreal
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Blog – Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson lights up London’s Tate Modern
Olafur Eliasson’s show at London’s Tate Modern passes Iceland’s landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of
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Royal Canadian Mint issues Nunavut gold collector coin to commemorate 20th anniversary of Arctic territory
The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a collector coin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the eastern Arctic territory of
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Canadian eastern Arctic: 2 Inuit artists share Nunavut Commissioner’s Arts Award
Susan Avinngaq of Igloolik and Jaco Ishulutaq from Pangnirtung are the winners of the 2018 Nunavut Commissioner’s Arts Award. Both
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Canada: Nunavut artist’s work unveiled on Parliament Hill
A new sculpture by Nunavut (eastern Arctic) artist Bart Hanna will soon be on display in the House of Commons
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Set of Indigenous Yup’ik masks reunited in Alaska after more than a century
It’s a reunion that’s been more than a century in the making — a set of century-old Yup’ik masks have
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Inuit art curator wants to bring traditional art back to Canada’s eastern Arctic
The curator of Inuit art for the Government of Nunavut, in Northern Canada, has a job sorting through thousands Inuit
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Artist creates a 10-foot metal giant as an ode to Northern Canada trappers
Dolphus Cadieux, a Canadian artist from the Northwest Territories, has worked for the past 15 years on a 10 feet
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Inuit carvings head to Northern Canada after decades in California
After decades in storage in a home in California, dozens of Inuit carvings have come home to Canada’s North. The
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From the Arctic to Atlantic, a photographer documents seal hunting in Canada
A photographer renowned for his images documenting the human face of seal hunting in Quebec and Newfoundland will spend at
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Indian Agent, the Alaska band reclaiming Indigenous voices
In the 1800s, the U.S. government hired non-indigenous people known as Indian agents to interact with and work to assimilate
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Novatek to artists: Can you beautify our gas plant?
Novatek invites artists to decorate the storage facilities of its Yamal LNG. Arctic landscape as long as the eye can
Read moreThe New Raw: Documentary Report
In this 2010 documentary report, Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn travelled to Cape Dorset, Nunavut to speak with the Arctic artists whose work is exploring the rapid social and environmental change in their communities.
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